Aliases: Dark Angel of Legend, Goddess of the Crossroads, Mistress of Magic, Mistress of the Moon, Mother of Hounds, "New Dark Queen of Brooklyn", Patroness of those who walk the Right-Hand Path, Triune Goddess, Witch-Queen

Place of Birth: Olympus

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Ms. Marvel I#11
(November, 1977)

Powers/Abilities: Hecate seems to have some sort
of psionic ability to channel energy, fire explosive rays and
turn her thoughts into mass. She can conjure up the worst fears
of her foes into their real life solid counterparts. She also has
an especially long life and seems to have ceased aging.

History: (Mythology) - Hecate was one of the few
Titans to remain in power after Zeus conquered Olympus.
As an underworld goddess, she was convinced she was to
rule the underworld as wife to Hades but was offended
when he abducted Persephone to be his bride. She
retaliated by becoming a goddess of the occult and
showing off the secrets of the dead to the world's first
witches. Her mortal priestess, Eidyia, had several
children by King Aeetes of Colchis -- one of whom, Medea,
became one of her most devout followers, but learned much
of her own magic from the goddess Circe herself. At some point she mated with Phorcys and mothered Scylla.

(Herc#4 (fb) - BTS) - When Zeus forbade the gods to meddle in mortal affairs he wiped out Hecate's memory and cast her out of Olympus by Zeus.

(Ms. Marvel I#11-13) - Hecate was
an exceptionally long-lived being who was confused with the
Olympian goddess Hecate and who for reasons of her own continued
to pose as the goddess. After rescuing the Elementals -- Hydron,
Magnum, Hellfire and Zephyr -- from space, she learned they were
seeking a powerful ruby scarab and went to stop them. Ms Marvel,
acting on a preminition of her friend Salia Petrie's death on a
space shuttle, encountered them. Thinking she was after the
scarab as well, Hecate and Ms Marvel clashed as the Elementals
found it and used it to levitate a small island and fling it on
top of the feuding females. Hecate blasted it with one mind beam,
but the blast also killed Salia Petrie as Ms Marvel had
predicted. Realizing that Ms Marvel only cared for her friend,
Hecate and the heroine teamed up against the Elementals and
defeated them. Ms Marvel, however, regressed into Carol Danvers
and took the scarab to use it against Hecate. But the scarab merged the personalites of Danvers and Ms Marvel and she
forgave Hecate, who took the scarab to keep it from falling into
the wrong hands.

(Herc#3) - When the Juggernaut's transformation into one of the Worthy destroyed the Raft Hecate escaped with Basilisk, Griffin and Man-Bull on a boat.
They attempted to rob a bank in Brooklyn at Cadman Plaza, but Hercules stopped the robbery. Griffin tried to escape with some money, but was shot down by the Warhawks. Hecate took the Shield of Perseus and looking into it returned her memory and she once again became the goddess she had once been. She declared herself the New Dark Queen of Lost Brooklyn and feasted on the people's fear.

(Herc#4) - Hecate's magic turned Griffin into his beastly form. That night Hecate, remembering everything and seeking revenge on Zeus by going after Hercules, joined Kyknos in his scheme and started by using her magic to transform Brooklyn into a place more fitting for Ares' return.

(Herc#5) - Hecate transformed humans and animals and everything else further, turning Brooklyn into a place filled with monsters. Hecate and Kyknos later watched people beat each other to death to bring back Ares with their sacrifice. They were both surprised when Basilisk, Man-Bull and Griffin delivered Hercules, petrified by the Shield of Perseus, to them.

(Herc#6) - Fed by the fear Hecate watched Kyknos' battle against Hercules, Basilisk, Griffin and Man-Bull until the people's fear in Brooklyn changed to hope. This hope and the prayers of Hercules' worshippers diverted Hecate's spell, whose energies now empowered Basilisk, Griffin and Man-Bull instead of Kyknos and his followers. The trio defeated Kyknos and Hecate's spell was broken. She fled while Brooklyn returned to normal.

Comments: Created by Chris Claremont
& Sal Buscema

Pretty much a let down as an appearance. Not
only does Danvers give in too easily, but Marvel cheats the
reader by not making Hecate the Olympian goddess she is supposed
to be. Marvel has already established the Olympian gods as major
participants in the MU, what did they hope to establish by not
making this Hecate the actual goddess is anyone's guess.

Since the Eternals have been masquerading as
the Olympians for centuries, it's probably likely that this Hecate
is also an Eternal, though perhaps not an Earth Eternal. She has
several powers and things in common with Sersi, the Eternal who
masqueraded as Circe in ancient times. --Both of the above points are true -- however, the fact that
Hecate was mistaken for an Olympian goddess does not mean that
she was mistaken for another person, who would have been the
Hecate from mythology. It is possible that in the MU, there was
never an Olympian goddess named Hecate, but just the woman from
this profile who deliberately led others to believe that she was
a goddess. I'm not saying I agree with this, or have any evidence
to support it, but I'm just trying to present all options. This
issue is undefined -- and likely to remain that way--Snood.

Decades later Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente revealed Hecate to be the actual Olympian goddess. She had amnesia and couldn't remember her true origins when she fought Ms. Marvel.

as discussed above, the connection between the mythological
Hecate and the extra-terrestrial scientist Hecate is uncertain.
If they are not the same character, than the mythological Hecate
has yet to appear in the MU.